What the New Orleans Film Society has here is a failure to
accommodate. After suffering a rain-out last month, the local group's planned outdoor
screening Thursday (June 27) of the 1967 Oscar-winning Paul Newman prison drama
"Cool Hand Luke" has been cancelled once more, this time due to a conflict with
the planned venue.

But there's good news for fans of classic movies: The film
society has rescheduled the screening to run as part of a double bill with a
planned July 12 screening of director Elia Kazan's New Orleans-set, New Orleans-shot
1950 thriller "Panic in the Streets" -- itself a rescheduled screening
following a rainout last month. The films will screen back-to-back on the
grounds of the old U.S. Mint at 400 Esplanade Ave. -- weather permitting.

"Panic in the Streets," starring Richard Widmark as a health
services official who must go up against a gang of crooks if he is to stop a
deadly outbreak of pneumonic plague, will get things started at 8 p.m.
Following that screening -- and a 10-minute intermission -- "Cool Hand Luke"
will screen at about 9:45 p.m., telling the story of a gutsy prisoner working
on a Southern chain gang.

Admission is $7 for both films ($5 for film society members,
members of the Louisiana Museum Foundation and members of the Friends of the
Cabildo).